March 17 2015:
The introduction of the new project has been made to the whole CAS and they do agree that there is a lack of sex-ed in the school, and some of them have not had sex-ed in the past 2 years! We have also found out that sex-ed in our school is very basic, and needs to keep up with contemporary culture in order to effectively cater for the students, topics like homosexuality and gender identity need to throughly discussed, and new teaching methods need to be used. The construct of the lessons also needs to be changed, a there are only 18 PSE classes in a whole year, which is surprisingly low when compared to the information that needs to be covered. Ideas proposed revolved around, having a separate sex-ed class with smaller groups to initiate further discussion and abolish the group pressure, that is apparent in lager groups. It is also essential to get rid of the stigma revolving around sex-ed, so that children can talk about it freely and their questions can be addressed. As a CAS we created an ideal syllabus, and it was interesting to see how well the ideas merged together (refer to picture to see the syllabus we created).
Sara and I also went out and talked to Mr. Lenoue to introduce the current project and get the counsellors input on what they would like in the future sex-ed syllabus vs. what it includes now. We learned that there isn't a concrete syllabus, and that teacher have to make up their own classes. I am currently talking to Mr.Lenoue and we are trying have a meeting with the counselling department, Ms.Wood and Ms.Gillman (refer to picture).
As the aim of the project is to create a new sex-ed syllabus that would fit the student's needs, we have begun crafting surveys for both parents and students (refer to picture) in order to obtain their opinion on what they believe is an optimum syllabus (refer to picture). A large problem with online surveys is that getting people to fill them out is extremely difficult, and if people dont fill them out the basis of the syllabus will be based solely on the opinions of the T-GO members. It might be more effective to either conduct the survey during PSE time or schedule and extended HomeRoom for the survey to be completed (as it is an issue that impacts all of the students and influences how well equipped they are are with knowledge as individuals).
The introduction of the new project has been made to the whole CAS and they do agree that there is a lack of sex-ed in the school, and some of them have not had sex-ed in the past 2 years! We have also found out that sex-ed in our school is very basic, and needs to keep up with contemporary culture in order to effectively cater for the students, topics like homosexuality and gender identity need to throughly discussed, and new teaching methods need to be used. The construct of the lessons also needs to be changed, a there are only 18 PSE classes in a whole year, which is surprisingly low when compared to the information that needs to be covered. Ideas proposed revolved around, having a separate sex-ed class with smaller groups to initiate further discussion and abolish the group pressure, that is apparent in lager groups. It is also essential to get rid of the stigma revolving around sex-ed, so that children can talk about it freely and their questions can be addressed. As a CAS we created an ideal syllabus, and it was interesting to see how well the ideas merged together (refer to picture to see the syllabus we created).
Sara and I also went out and talked to Mr. Lenoue to introduce the current project and get the counsellors input on what they would like in the future sex-ed syllabus vs. what it includes now. We learned that there isn't a concrete syllabus, and that teacher have to make up their own classes. I am currently talking to Mr.Lenoue and we are trying have a meeting with the counselling department, Ms.Wood and Ms.Gillman (refer to picture).
As the aim of the project is to create a new sex-ed syllabus that would fit the student's needs, we have begun crafting surveys for both parents and students (refer to picture) in order to obtain their opinion on what they believe is an optimum syllabus (refer to picture). A large problem with online surveys is that getting people to fill them out is extremely difficult, and if people dont fill them out the basis of the syllabus will be based solely on the opinions of the T-GO members. It might be more effective to either conduct the survey during PSE time or schedule and extended HomeRoom for the survey to be completed (as it is an issue that impacts all of the students and influences how well equipped they are are with knowledge as individuals).